Jolie_Bryant
Some truths are buried for love.
Others are buried to survive.
Iris Rowe has spent nineteen years living in beautiful houses that never felt like home.
Raised by a wealthy, emotionally distant father, she's learned that love can be transactional, silence can be safer than honesty, and wanting more is something you keep to yourself. So when Iris decides to move into her own flat near London, it isn't rebellion it's survival.
The only thing she isn't ready to leave behind is Miles Anderson.
Miles has always been there. Steady. Protective. Quiet in the way that feels like safety. Their connection is slow, unspoken, and devastating, built on years of almosts, restraint, and love neither of them has ever dared to name. As Iris learns who she is outside of her father's control, she also begins to see Miles differently... and realise that loving him without clarity has been hurting them both.
But independence doesn't just give Iris space.
It gives her perspective.
As she builds a life of her own, questions about her mother's death long dismissed as a tragedy too painful to revisit begin to resurface. Details don't add up. Silences feel deliberate. And the man who controls everything in her life seems desperate to keep the past buried.
What starts as a search for freedom becomes a search for truth.
Caught between a love that asks her to be brave and a past that refuses to stay hidden, Iris must decide who she wants to be, and what she's willing to lose to get there.
A slow burn romance wrapped in a haunting mystery, Fading Into You is a story about:
- Falling in love with the person who's always known you
-Choosing yourself even when it costs you everything
-Quiet longing, devastating almost kisses, and unspoken devotion
- And uncovering a truth that was never meant to be found
Because sometimes, finding yourself means discovering the love you were afraid to claim...
and the monster you were taught to trust.